Ansys Forming is an all-in-one forming simulation software built to digitally design and validate every step of the sheet metal forming process with speed and accuracy.
Ansys Forming simulates all metal stamping tasks through an end-to-end workflow that allows you to perform the entire die process in a single platform, with the fastest solve time. With Ansys Forming you can achieve optimal performance, maintain speed and accuracy, and enhance your productivity and cost savings by reducing die cuts and redesign.
Powered by the LS-DYNA solver, Ansys Forming offers a comprehensive platform to meet all your metal stamping needs. Able to monitor each stage with presets, including feasibility, formability, and springback, Ansys Forming advances early stage and detailed design configurations.
January 2025
The 2025 R1 of Ansys Forming contains several new features and three notable highlights: Hot Forming, drawing bead profiles, and drawing die spring back compensation.
Ansys Forming now supports the new project type, Hot Forming. This type of project utilizes additional thermal settings and material properties to simulate draw operations in a Hot Forming process.
Temperature components of the simulation are viewable in contour plots during postprocessing analysis.
The new functionality enables splitting draw beads into distinct segments for greater flexibility in modeling. The enhanced draw bead design interface incorporates the three most common profiles and uses automatic 2D simulations to calculate uplift and restraining forces accurately.
This functionality iteratively adjusts the geometry of the draw die to account for deviations caused by part spring back. With Ansys Forming, the software automatically updates trimming curves and visualizes deviations from the target geometry for each iteration, ensuring precision. The setup process is straightforward, and user-friendly tools are available for enhanced control and verification.
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